Until Trevor (Until, #2)(27)
“I talked to her before I went to bed. She was home and didn’t tell me that anything happened to her.”
“No, man, she’s fine. She left the parking lot while Nico was there watching. Well, he went inside to order out, and Jen was there with her friends.” Shit. This is what I didn’t need f*cking Jen.
“What did Jen do to her?” I demand.
Cash starts laughing again, and I'm about ready to stop the truck and kick his ass.
“Jen didn’t do anything if what Nico thinks happened, happened. Your girl jacked Jen’s tire from her car, and left that shit sitting on three wheels.”
“What?” I whisper. I cannot picture my sweet Liz doing anything like that…ever.
“When Nico got his order, he went back out to his truck just as Jen and her posse were getting ready to leave. Jen started yelling from across the parking lot, so he went over to see what was going on. That’s when he saw Jen’s driver’s side back tire missing, not even a jack or a brick holding that shit up. Then, Nico remembered the look on Liz’s face and how dirty she looked when he pulled into the parking lot, and everything came together.”
“You are joking, right?”
“Looks like sweet Liz has a little evil in her after all.” Cash chuckles, making me laugh.
“Something must have happened. I can’t see Liz doing that for no reason.” I’m trying not to let my imagination run away from me. I would never hit a chick, but if Jen or any of her posse f*cked with my girl, they would answer to me.
“Don’t know, but wish I could be a fly on the wall when you ask her about it,” Cash says, putting the phone back to his ear. A thought occurred to me, and I couldn’t help but to ask.
“Did he tell Jen that he thought it was Liz?” I ask, holding the steering wheel tighter when Cash didn’t say anything. I glance over at him.
“Do you think that any of us would tell any of those bitches shit? Fuck no! We wouldn’t; you should know that.”
“Look,” I sigh, running my hands down my face, trying to find the right words. “If Jen has even a hint that it was Liz, she will go after her. I can’t risk something happening to her; she has enough shit going on without adding to it.”
“You love her.”
“What?” I look over at him, and my eyes narrow.
“You f*cking love her. Holy shit!”
I want to say, “f*ck no; hell no”, and that it’s impossible to love someone after only a few weeks together; then I remind myself that we spent nine months together before July was born. We might not have been together every day, but most of my free time was filled with her. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had been slowly falling in love with her. I'm snapped out of my thoughts by the speakerphone, with Nico singing, “Da da da da, another one bites the dust. And another one falls, and another one falls,another one bites the dust.”
“Very funny,” I sigh, rubbing the back of my head.
“Just saying. I don’t want that shit to happen to me,” Nico says, his voice coming through the cell phone in Cash’s hand.
“You asses will be singing a different tune when it does.”
“Fuck that. I'm going to get as much * as I can before I have to settle with one.”
“I didn’t even call to talk about this shit,” Nico cuts Cash off. “I wanted to make sure that you were all going to be at the site tomorrow,” Nico says, sounding nervous.
I look over at Cash, and can see the same pain I'm feeling written on his face. “Sure, we’ll be there.”
“Good, see you guys then,” he says, before the line goes dead.
“So, I guess he’s going to talk to us about working for Kenton.”
“Guess so,” I agree. I don’t want to think about this shit right now. My brothers and I have always been inseparable, and I don’t want to think about Nico not being a part of our company any more.
“So…you gonna call Liz and ask her about the tire?”
“Do I look stupid to you?”
“Yes,” he chuckles, and I look over at him.
“I’ll talk to her about it when I get home.”
“You’re sounding very domesticated these days.”
“Fuck you,” I say while smiling.
Cash shakes his head, laughing. “I'm going to stay away from chicks from now on. There must be something in the water.”
“So you aint gonna call Lilly?”
“Fuck yeah, I'm calling her! Did you see her tits?” I look over at him; he’s holding out his hands in front of him like he’s got huge melons balancing in them.
“You’re full of shit,” I laugh. Out of all of us, Cash is the one who wears his heart on his sleeve.
“Never mind don’t look at her tits.” He says. I look over to see a look of confusion on his face before he ask “So are you and Liz living together?”
“Yes, but don’t tell her I told you that.”
“So you’re living together but she doesn’t know it?”
“Pretty much.” I shrug.
He laughs. “Let me know how that works out for you.”
*~*~*
It’s after seven when I finally pull up to the house. Liz’s car is in the driveway, so I decide to check her trunk. As soon as the trunk light comes on, I can see that she had pulled up the carpet to get to her spare, but there is no spare, and no extra tire that could have been Jen’s. I look around, wondering where she would have put an extra tire.